The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor, and economics reporter. Like many of our Bay Area colleagues, we are closely following the case of Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez. A Hayward-based asylum seeker, Rodriguez Gutierrez was deported last week to Colombia along […]
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Hundreds gather for International Working Women’s Day in Oakland
On Sunday, Mar. 8, hundreds of families, women, and children gathered at Lake Merritt in Oakland to participate in the 12th annual International Working Women’s Day march and rally. A sea of red poppy flowers, Palestinian and Mexican flags, along with vibrant protest signs filled the streets for the celebration. This year’s event focused on […]
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Thousands of mixed-status California families could lose housing under proposed federal rule
The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor, and economics reporter. For the past year, this newsletter has tracked the local impacts of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, often focusing on policies and ICE tactics targeting undocumented immigrants. But the consequences […]
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State of the Union kicks off immigration fight as midterms loom
The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Vanessa G. Sánchez, senior health equity reporter. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address, which became the longest in history at 108-minutes. I sat down with pen and paper to hear […]
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Deadly lookalikes
The day before Christmas Eve, M.G., a 34-year-old Maya Mam immigrant from Guatemala, was walking through a park in the East Oakland hills with her husband and two children when she noticed a cluster of fleshy white mushrooms poking out of the rain-dampened soil. Lea esta historia en español. They looked familiar. In the highlands […]
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From day laborers to teachers, these are love letters to the Bay Area residents who carry our communities
This year for Valentine’s Day, El Tímpano set out to spread love, joy, and recognition across our Latino and Maya immigrant communities in the Bay Area. Lea esta historia en español. At a time when immigrant communities may be feeling targeted and attacked, we decided to focus our attention on something different: celebration. We chose […]
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The Bay Area bears witness in Minneapolis
Last year, we told the story of how music became a source of healing for survivors of a deadly mass shooting at a Half Moon Bay mushroom farm that left seven farmworkers dead in 2023. At the center of this effort was a local nonprofit, Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS), which emerged as a steady […]
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El Tímpano’s resource guide for immigrant families—now pocket-sized
El Tímpano’s Guía de Recursos is a digital, Spanish-language directory shaped by thousands of community questions and our team’s 7+ years of experience answering them. Our objective in creating it was to make it easier for the Bay Area’s Spanish- and Mam-speaking immigrants to find the resources and information they need, and for resource navigators […]
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A South County resident brings memories of biking in Mexico to life in Hayward
When Alejandro Jasso first heard about the proposed changes to Patrick Avenue in Hayward in 2021, he decided to join a community feedback meeting hosted by the city’s Transportation Division to see what was going on. Lea esta historia en español. Jasso, who was 27 at the time and had just moved to the neighborhood, […]
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Hundreds rally in Fruitvale Plaza for anti-ICE ‘National Shutdown’ protest
Hundreds of people rallied in Oakland’s Fruitvale Plaza on Friday afternoon to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown following two recent fatal shootings of Minneapolis residents by immigration officials. Lea esta historia en español. The rally was part of a nationwide day of action and general strike held in solidarity with immigrants and residents of […]